Catastrophe and contention in rural China : Mao's Great Leap Forwards famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village

Ralph A. Thaxton

The republican era and the emergence of communist leadership during the anti-Japanese war of resistance -- The ascent of the vigilante militia : the violent antecedents of Mao's war communism -- The onset of collectivization and popular dissatisfaction with Mao's "yellow bomb" road -- The mandate abandoned : the disaster of the Great Leap Forward -- Strategies of survival and their elimination in the great leap forward -- The escape from famine and death -- Indignation and frustrated retaliation : the politics of disengagement -- The market comes first : the economics of disengagement -- Persistent memories and long-delayed retaliation in the reform era

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Year of publication:	2008 ; 1. publ.
Authors:	Thaxton, Ralph
Publisher:	Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press
Subject:	Sozialistische Landwirtschaft \| Socialist agriculture \| Ländliche Wirtschaft \| Rural economy \| Unterernährung \| Undernutrition \| Politischer Widerstand \| Political resistance \| Kommunismus \| Communism \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history \| China \| Hungersnot \| Geschichte 1920-1993 \| Großer Sprung nach vorn \| Dorf \| Widerstand
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Extent:	XXII, 383 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm
Series:	Cambridge studies in contentious politics
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Fallstudie ; Case study
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 349 - 364) and index The republican era and the emergence of communist leadership during the anti-Japanese war of resistance -- The ascent of the vigilante militia : the violent antecedents of Mao's war communism -- The onset of collectivization and popular dissatisfaction with Mao's "yellow bomb" road -- The mandate abandoned : the disaster of the Great Leap Forward -- Strategies of survival and their elimination in the great leap forward -- The escape from famine and death -- Indignation and frustrated retaliation : the politics of disengagement -- The market comes first : the economics of disengagement and the origins of reform -- Persistent memories and long-delayed retaliation in the reform era
ISBN:	978-0-521-89749-5 ; 978-0-521-72230-8
Classification:	Kommunismus ; Sozialismus ; Politische Prozesse: Allgemeines ; Ländliche Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Faktoren
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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